A Lifetime of Deep Love for You

"Mrs. Gu, you're in the late stages of cancer..."

My face turned pale as I asked the doctor, "What did you say?"

The doctor held the medical chart against his arm, carefully choosing his words. "Mrs. Gu, after your miscarriage two years ago, the incomplete dilation and curettage, coupled with subsequent infections, led to uterine cancer..."

Tears streamed down my face as I interrupted him, "How much time do I have left?"

"The cancer has spread... at most, three months..."

I could no longer hear anything the doctor was saying. My mind buzzed, the words echoing over and over: less than three months...

...

That night, in the Gu family villa.

The man let out a low grunt before getting off me and heading to the bathroom for a shower, while I buried my head in the pillow, a deep sorrow swelling in my heart.

The man who had just been with me was my husband-Gu Tingchen.

I regarded him as my husband; he treated me like a prostitute.

For three whole years, every time he returned to the villa, he would shower immediately after our lovemaking, as if he had touched something filthy. After his shower, he would leave with a cold, indifferent expression.

From beginning to end, he never spoke a word to me.

Just like tonight, after showering and dressing in his suit, he was about to leave.

I sat naked on the bed, softly calling out to him.

His thin lips pressed tightly together, his indifferent gaze fixed on me.

Facing his indifferent eyes, the words I wanted to say got stuck in my throat. In the end, all I could manage was, "Drive safely."

A car horn blared downstairs. I walked naked from the bed to the window, staring at the black Maybach as I dialed Gu Tingchen's number.

He answered impatiently, "What is it?"

We had been married for three years. When he married me, there was already a woman in his heart. But his father threatened him with that woman's life, forcing him to marry me.

He resisted, but in the end, he was compelled to give up the woman he loved and bring me into the Gu family.

For three years, he treated me with coldness and cruelty.

Especially in bed, where he preferred me to crawl like a dog, calling out the name of that woman-Wen Ruyan.

Gu Tingchen never spared any effort in humiliating me.

I remember that when I first fell in love with Gu Tingchen, I was only fourteen, at the tender age when love first blossoms. When you like someone, you treasure them in your heart, and at that time, he was the piano teacher in the neighboring class.

Even now, I don't understand why I fell for a stranger seven or eight years older than me. Perhaps it was because of his handsome appearance, his warm voice, or maybe it was the first time I heard him play the piano-the same piece my mother played for me before she passed away.

I can't quite pinpoint the reason. That year, I followed Gu Tingchen for several months until he left the piano class, and I never saw him again.

I didn't even have the chance to ask his name.

In the following years, I couldn't find the man who played the piano, until the chairman of the Gu family approached the Shi family to arrange a marriage between me and their son...

The Shi family is as wealthy as a nation, the most powerful family in Wu City, and I am the heiress of the Shi family. Before I met Gu Tingchen, my parents died in a plane crash, their bodies never recovered.

I suddenly became the most powerful person in Wu City.

It was during that lonely and sorrowful time that I encountered the warm Gu Tingchen.

We had met a few times before. He knew I had been following him, but he saw me as just an ordinary student, never paying attention to my presence. He never chased me away, only gently reminding me when it was late, "Little girl, you should go home now. Otherwise, your parents will worry, and it's dangerous for you to be out alone at night."

Thinking back, I still feel a warmth in my heart.

At that time, Gu Tingchen was gentle and considerate.

I closed my eyes. The one thing I regret most was agreeing to the engagement proposed by Gu Tingchen's father three years ago. At first, I scorned it, as countless families sought to form alliances with the Shi family through marriage.

But when he showed me that photo, when I saw that familiar face, my heart trembled violently, mixed with anticipation.

Because that was the man I had longed for day and night.

I took a bold gamble.

I bet that Gu Tingchen would marry me.

I bet that even if our marriage lacked love, we would still respect each other as husband and wife.

I bet that he would care for me and be a considerate husband.

But it should not have turned out like this, with him humiliating me at every turn.

He even ordered the abortion of our child two years ago.

In front of the doctor, without any regard for my dignity or my hopes, he coldly declared, "Shi Sheng, you are not worthy of bearing my child."

Gu Tingchen hated me, hated me enough to kill the child in my womb!

He forgot...

Forgot the little girl who once followed him day and night.

In his eyes, I was the woman who used the power of the Shi family to threaten his father, who usurped the position of Mrs. Gu and drove away the woman he loved.

In his heart, I am unforgivable.

My mind was filled with memories of the past. Perhaps I had been silent for too long, as Gu Tingchen's voice grew cold, warning me, "Don't test my patience. You know I have none for you."

I snapped back to reality, suppressing the immense bitterness in my heart, and smiled faintly, saying, "Gu Tingchen, let's make a deal."